I few days ago I found a post from Tobias Escher talking about Why should researchers blog?. His post was interesting but opposite to Ismael Peña hyphotesis so I just sent him the URL. Later Ismael put a comment to Tobias’s post and next Tobias answered him back. Finally both will meet each other in… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Health
Google ranked 'worst' on privacy (a Health Care Value)
BBC News has published this headline Google ranked ‘worst’ on privacy talking about a recent report launched by Privacy International. I haven’t read the report yet and I hadn’t heard before about this organization. But at least it makes me think again about the complexity of putting together health and Google as privacy is a… Read more »
Deal with Google in Healthcare Systems
I am glad to notice that many bloggers have started talking about the implications of Google in healthcare. David Rothman has post about Google vs. PubMed linking with another interesting blog called Open Medicine Blog. Those kind of posts support the hyphothesis about the social, economics and political implications of search engines as technological artefacs…. Read more »
Putting health into the patient's hands or into the markets' hand?
Adam Bosworth has posted about his speech at the 2007 American Medical Association of Informatics (AMIA) Spring Congress talking about Putting health into the patient’s hands. I do not have any doubt about Google’s capacity to innovate in healthcare field. But probably because in most countries in Europe we have a welfare state model who… Read more »
Infodemiology: a key issue for Web 2.0 in Health
In 2002 Gunter Eysenbach wrote “Infodemiology: The Epidemiology of (Mis)information” describing the emergence of a new research discipline and methodology focus on the study of the determinants and distribution of health information and misinformation. As the author said Information epidemiology, or infodemiology, identifies areas where there is a knowledge translation gap between best evidence (what… Read more »
An open call for Health Wikis
Although the research I have been working during these years shows a scarce use of Web 2.0 in the health field. There are many evidences on the Internet about Wikis and Health. David Rothman has a very interesting list of Medical Wikis and John Sharp has posted Medical Wikis – a follow up. Those pioneer… Read more »
WHO adopts Wikipedia approach for key update
Ismael Peña has sent me this headline WHO adopts Wikipedia approach for key update from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. As the notice said WHO is embarking on one of its periodic updates of a system of medical coding called the International Classification of Diseases and it wants the world’s help doing it. The new, more open… Read more »
The Internet and Health Communication. Experiences and Expectations
The Internet and Health Communication. Experiences and Expectations edited by Ronald E. Rice and James E. Katz provides an in-depth analysis of the changes in human communication and health care resulting from the Internet revolution.Even though the dynamics of change of Internet technologies, the framework proposed by Rice still helps us to understand the intersection… Read more »
The End of the Golden Age of Doctoring and eHealth
McKinlay and Marceau wrote The end of the golden age of doctoring. In this article the authors discussed eight interrelated reasons for the decline of the golden age of doctoring: Major extrinsicfactors (generally outside the control of the profession) include: (1) the changing nature of the state and loss of its partisan support for doctoring,… Read more »
Hospitals on the Net?
A few years ago Porter wrote “Strategy and Internet”. The idea in practice was that “Internet powerfully influences industry structure and sustainable competitive advantage”. In the countries where the healthcare system is not “marked-oriented” the presence of the Hospital on the Net doesn’t matter. There is lack of interest. This is the first barrier. Randeree… Read more »